Volunteers spruce up care home garden

Residents and staff at Winsford Grange Care Home want to thank staff from Shoosmiths law firm and GIA surveyors for helping to spruce up their garden.

The team cleared the garden, mowed the lawn and planted a range of flowers and shrubs to create some colour through the winter months.

Volunteers moved some garden furniture from other areas of the home so residents could get maximum benefit relaxing outside.

A team of volunteers have given the garden at Winsford Grange Care Home a makeover

Karen Woodward, service manager at Winsford Grange, said: “Residents and staff were delighted to watch the progress of the volunteers throughout the day and would like to say a massive thank you to the team for giving up their day to volunteer to come and spruce up our garden.”

Wayne Nash, partner at Shoosmiths Law Firm, said: "It was a pleasure for us to volunteer at Winsford Grange and it was great for everyone to work together as a team on this project.

"There was a great sense of achievement seeing the finished garden and it was lovely to faces of residents and staff who really appreciated the effort of all the team.”

Volunteers planted a range of flowers and shrubs to create colour during the winter months

The two firms from Manchester carried out the work on September 20.

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Community Integrated Care, which runs Winsford Grange Care Home, encourages residents and staff to build and develop relationships with a range of groups, organisations and businesses within the local community to help give them meaningful activities.

It also welcomes volunteers and visitors to events and activities within the home as a way of reducing social isolation, particularly as the dark winter nights are now setting in and many older people or people who have retired early may not see anyone from one week to the next.